Bush VETOES HEALTH CARE for poor children.... NANCY SMILES and HANDS HIM _ANOTHER_ $50 billion no-strings-attached war check! BRAVO, Nancy!
WHO WOULD HAVE THUNK IT?
With BOTH HILLARY CLINTON and NANCY PELOSI pleading "WE ARE TOO DUMB TO KNOW about any gross abuses of power (much less CRIMINAL CONDUCT) from the Bush-Cheney administration" and
"WE COULDN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT ANY such ABUSES OF POWER even if we did!" - THEY ARE BOTH TANKING!
In a Special Election held in Virginia and Ohio this Tuesday, Republicans WON BOTH ELECTIONS, Pelosi/DCCC Democrat candidates ZERO!
GOOD GOING, NANCY!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/12/AR2007121200677.html
WHERE THE HELL did the CRAVEN, COWERING, STUPID, COMPLICIT Democrats get the idea that IGNORING the BLATANT CRIMES, CORRUPTION, LIES, and INCOMPETENCE of Bush-Cheney co. would be a WINNING election formula for them in 2008???
Oh yeah... from formerly "OUTRAGED at Republican corruption and malfeasance" Democrat strategist and former political street-fighter JAMES CARVILLE... who married uber-Republican spin-miester Mary Matlin. Since then, Carville has been all but FORBIDDEN by his wife from making the truth stick to Republicans guilty of malfeasance. (Especially regarding Matlin's boss, Dick Cheney, ties to OBSTRUCTION of JUSTICE from his Chief of Staff, Scooter Libby's conviction, or Cheney's role in the "making intel fit the policy" Lies-to-War.)
Oh yeah - from the AIPAC LOBBY! Who LOVE Cheney's lust for WIDER WARS in the Mideast (and GESTAPO and SS powers at home and abroad) and who now OWN both Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi.
Pelosi "the AIPAC GIRL" (according to Pat Buchanan):
http://www.postchronicle.com/commentary/article_21270952.shtml
At AIPAC annual conference in Washington DC, March 2007, "bipartisan" attendees WILDLY APPLAUD Vice President Dick Cheney's MOST BOMBASTIC "BOMB IRAN NOW!" rheoric. (Cheney's speech saying in essence, "MORE WAR NOW on the AMERICAN TAXPAYER's DIME.")
http://www.aipac.org/about_AIPAC/Learn_About_AIPAC/2841_5081.asp
And as we just pointed out, "DEMOCRAT" strategist (and current Hillary campaign advisor) JAMES CARVILLE is NOW just ONE PERSON REMOVED from AIPAC's favorite despotic American war lord, DICK "5 deferments from Vietnam war, and I love eating live kittens, or killing tame gamebirds by the dozens" Cheney!
GOOD GOING, NANCY! Before you are done, AMERICAN DEMOCRACY will be nothing but roadkill, a fondly remembered RELIC OF HISTORY. Well, we hope that AIPAC is paying you well for your SELLING OUT TO THE WAR PARTY, and the related GESTAPO police-state powers for the War Party's GWOT.
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Republicans Retain 2 Vacant House Seats
By JOHN SEEWER
The Associated Press
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/12/AR2007121200677.html
TOLEDO, Ohio -- Republicans maintained control of both congressional seats that were up for grabs in special elections Tuesday in Ohio and Virginia, disappointing Democrats who had hoped to extend their gains in the House.
In Ohio, a state representative defeated a Democrat making her third run for the seat. And in Virginia, a first-term state legislator easily won.
Republican State Rep. Bob Latta talks with colleagues before the start of the Ohio House session Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2007, in Columbus, Ohio. Latta faces Democrat Robin Weirauch in a special election Dec. 11, 2007, to fill the 5th Congressional District seat of the late U.S. Rep. Paul Gillmor, who died last September. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete) (Jay Laprete - AP)
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Both elections were to fill seats left vacant by deaths. Jo Ann Davis, who had represented a southeastern Virginia district for seven years, died of breast cancer in October. Rep. Paul Gillmor, first elected in a northwest Ohio district in 1988, died in a fall in September.
The winners of both races will complete the terms of Gillmor and Davis.
Democrats, who won control of the House last year 233-202, had hoped to benefit from the low turnout typical of special elections.
In Ohio, Republicans have held the state's 5th District since the 1930s. At times, Democrats have all but conceded the seat by spending little money and trotting out candidates with limited political experience.
Bob Latta, a Republican state representative, had 57 percent of the vote and Democrat Robin Weirauch had 43 percent with 100 percent of the vote counted.
"I hope to continue representing this district in the same honor and integrity of Paul Gillmor and my father before him," Latta said in a statement.
Latta ran for Congress in 1988, trying to replace his father, Delbert Latta, who held the seat for 30 years. But he lost in the GOP primary to Gillmor by 27 votes.
Weirauch, 50, was on her third run for the seat. Last year she received more votes _ 43 percent _ than any other Democrat in the district's history.
In Virginia, Rob Wittman, a first-term Republican state legislator, got about 61 percent of the vote over Democrat Philip Forgit's nearly 37 percent, with 100 percent of votes counted. Only about 15 percent of registered voters turned out.
Wittman had a nearly 4-to-1 fundraising advantage and the benefit of being a Republican in a district where President Bush got 60 percent of the vote in 2004.
Forgit, a teacher, is a decorated military veteran in a district that includes the Quantico Marine base, the Army's Fort A.P. Hill and a Navy weapons testing center. Forgit went to Iraq with his Naval Reserve unit, returning in 2006.
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Associated Press writer Bob Lewis in Richmond, Va., contributed to this report.
